It does that to me too….It’s hard to believe we went from that kind of heartfelt gratitude to men who gave their lives to make a better world to the cynical celebration of hate that we get from Fox News

I’m leery of posting songs like this because I don’t want to my intention
taken for nostalgia. It would be easy to for a modern ear raised on the
anti-progressive propaganda of Fox News to dismiss the song as sappy.
But this long is like a snapshot of the emotional tone of an era.
In this case an era when the people of the U.S. and large portions of the rest
of the World had faith in our leaders and in our system of government.
According to Wiki Abraham, Martin and John ranked as follows in 1968:

Yes…If I have to live in an imperfect culture composed of flawed people I’d rather they have a sense of vision and a sense of right and wrong. Our biggest problem in the states is a cynical ruling class that has no sense of responsibility.